Standard Occupational Classification 1990
3 = 3 Associate Professional and Technical Occupations
6 = 6 Personal and Protective Service Occupations
10 = 10 General managers and administrators in national and local
11 = 11 Production managers in manufacturing, construction, minin
13 = 13 Financial institution and office managers, civil service
16 = 16 Managers in farming, horticulture, forestry and fishing
17 = 17 Manager, and proprietors in service industries
31 = 31 Draughtspersons, quantity surveyors and other surveyors
33 = 33 Ship and aircraft officers, air traffic planners and cont
36 = 36 Business and financial associate professionals
37 = 37 Social welfare associate professionals
38 = 38 Literary, artistic and sports professional
39 = 39 Associate professional occupations nec
40 = 40 Administrative /clerical officers and assistants in civil
44 = 44 Stores and despatch clerks, storekeepers
45 = 45 Secretaries, personal assistants, typists, word processor
46 = 46 Receptionists, telephonists and related occupations
49 = 49 Clerical and secretarial occupations nec
51 = 51 Metal machining, fitting and instrument making trades
53 = 53 Metal farming, welding and related trades
55 = 55 Textiles, garments and related trades
59 = 59 Other craft and related occupations nec
61 = 61 Security and protected service occupations
63 = 63 Travel attendants and related occupation
66 = 66 Hairdressers, beauticians and related occupation
67 = 67 Domestic staff and related occupations
69 = 69 Personal and protect service occupation nec
72 = 72 Sales assistants and check-our operators
73 = 73 Mobile, market and door-to-door salespersons
80 = 80 Food drink and tobacco process operatives
81 = 81 Textiles and tannery process operatives
82 = 82 Chemicals, paper, plastics and related process operatives
83 = 83 Metal making and treating process opeeratives
88 = 88 Other transport and machinery operatives
90 = 90 Other occupations m agriculture, forestry and fishing
91 = 91 Other occupations in mining and manufacturing
95 = 95 Other occupations in sales and service
100 = 100 General administrators; national government (Assistant S
101 = 101 General Managers; large companies and organisations
102 = 102 Local government officers (administrative and executive
103 = 103 General administrators; national government (HEO to Seni
110 = 110 Production, works and maintenance managers
113 = 113 Managers in mining and energy industries
120 = 120 Treasurers and company financial managers
123 = 123 Advertising and public relations managers
124 = 124 Personnel, training and industrial relations managers
125 = 125 Organisation and methods and work study managers
126 = 126 Computer systems and data processing managers
131 = 131 Bank, Building Society and Post Office managers (except
132 = 132 Civil service executive officers government
139 = 139 Other financial institutions and office managers n.e.c.
142 = 142 Managers in warehousing and other materials handling
151 = 151 Officers in foreign and Commonwealth armed forces
152 = 152 Police officer (inspector and above)
153 = 153 Fire service officers (station officer and above)
154 = 154 Prison officers (principal officer and above)
155 = 155 Customs and excise, immigration service officers (custom
160 = 160 Farm owners and managers, horticulturists
169 = 169 Other managers in farming, forestry and fishing n.e.c.
172 = 172 Hairdressers' and barbers' managers and proprietors
175 = 175 Publicans, innkeepers and club stewards
178 = 178 Managers and proprietors of butchers and fishmongers
179 = 179 Managers and proprietors in service industries n.e.c.
190 = 190 Officials of trade associations, trade unions, professio
191 = 191 Registrars and administrators of educational establishme
199 = 199 Other managers and administrators n.e.c.
201 = 201 Biological scientists and biochemists
202 = 202 Physicists, geologists and meteorologists
210 = 210 Civil, structural, municipal, mining and quarrying engin
212 = 212 Electrical engineers professional meter
218 = 218 Planning and quality control engineers
219 = 219 Other engineers and technologists n.e.c.
230 = 230 University and polytechnic teaching professionals
231 = 231 Higher and Further education teaching professionals
233 = 233 Secondary (and middle school deemed secondary) education
234 = 234 Primary (and middle school deemed primary) and nursery e
235 = 235 Special education teaching professionals
239 = 239 Other teaching professionals n.e.c. teacher dancing
252 = 252 Actuaries, economists and statisticians
253 = 253 Management consultants, business analysts
262 = 262 Building, land, mining and 'general practice' surveyors
291 = 291 Other social and behavioural scientists
303 = 303 Architectural and town planning technicians
304 = 304 Building and civil engineering technicians
313 = 313 Marine, insurance and other surveyors
330 = 330 Air traffic planners and controllers
346 = 346 Medical technicians, dental auxiliaries
347 = 347 Occupational and speech therapists, psychotherapists, th
349 = 349 Other health associate professionals animals
350 = 350 Legal service and related occupations
361 = 361 Underwriters, claims assessors, brokers, investment anal
363 = 363 Personnel and industrial relations officers
364 = 364 Organisation and methods and work study officers
371 = 371 Welfare, community and youth workers
381 = 381 Artists, commercial artists, graphic designers
382 = 382 Industrial designers and textile designers
384 = 384 Actors, entertainers, stage managers, producers and dire
386 = 386 Photographers, camera, sound and video equipment operato
387 = 387 Professional athletes, sports officials
390 = 390 Information officers and technical librarians
392 = 392 Careers advisers and vocational guidance specialists
394 = 394 Inspectors of factories, utilities and trading standards
395 = 395 Other statutory similar inspectors driving
396 = 396 Occupational hygienists and safety officers (health and
399 = 399 Other associate professional and technical occupations n
400 = 400 Civil administrative assistants taxation
401 = 401 Local government clerical officers assistants health
410 = 410 Accounts and wages clerks, book-keepers, other financial
412 = 412 Debt, rent and other cash collectors
420 = 420 Filing, computer and other records clerks (inc. legal co
440 = 440 Stores despatch production control clerks warehouse
452 = 452 Typists and word processor operators
459 = 459 Other secretaries, personal assistants, typists, word pr
463 = 463 Radio and telegraph operators, other office communicatio
490 = 490 Computer operators, data processing operators, other off
501 = 501 Roofers, slaters, tilers, sheeters, cladders
505 = 505 Scaffolders, stagers, steeplejacks, riggers
506 = 506 Floorers, floor coverers, carpet fitters and planners, f
509 = 509 Other construction trades n.e.c. building
510 = 510 Centre, capstan, turret and other lathe setters and sett
511 = 511 Boring and drilling machine setters and setter-operators
512 = 512 Grinding machine setters and setter-operators
513 = 513 Milling machine setters and setter-operators
515 = 515 Tool makers tool fitters markers out metal foreman
516 = 516 Metal working production and maintenance fitters
517 = 517 Precision instrument makers and repairers
518 = 518 Goldsmiths, silversmiths, precious stone workers
519 = 519 Other tool setters operators shaper foreman auto
521 = 521 Electricians, electrical maintenance fitters
522 = 522 Electrical engineers (not professional)
524 = 524 Cable jointers, lines repairers supervisor
526 = 526 Computer engineers, installation and maintenance
529 = 529 Other electrical/electronic trades n.e.c.
532 = 532 Plumbers, heating and ventilating engineers and related
534 = 534 Metal plate workers, shipwrights, riveters
540 = 540 Motor mechanics, auto engineers (inc. road patrol engine
542 = 542 Vehicle body repairers, panel beaters
552 = 552 Warp preparers, bleachers, dyers and finishers
553 = 553 Sewing machinists, menders, darners and embroiderers
554 = 554 Coach trimmers, upholsterers and mattress makers
555 = 555 Shoe repairers, leather cutters and sewers, footwear las
557 = 557 Clothing cutters, milliners, furriers
559 = 559 Other textiles, garments and related trades n.e.c.
560 = 560 Originators, compositors and print preparers
562 = 562 Book binders and print finishers specialised
569 = 569 Other printing and related trades n.e.c.
591 = 591 Glass product and ceramics finishers and decorators
593 = 593 Musical instrument makers, piano tuners
596 = 596 Coach painters, other spray painters
597 = 597 Face trained coalmining workers, shotfirers and deputies
598 = 598 Office machinery mechanics dictaphone
599 = 599 Other craft and related occupations n.e.c.
600 = 600 NCOs and other ranks, UK armed forces
601 = 601 NCOs and other ranks, foreign and commonwealth armed for
610 = 610 Police officers (sergeant and below)
611 = 611 Fire service officers (leading fire officer and below)
613 = 613 Customs and excise officers, immigration officers (custo
615 = 615 Security guards and related occupations
619 = 619 Other security protective service occupations life
640 = 640 Assistant nurses, nursing auxiliaries
659 = 659 Other childcare and related occupations n.e.c.
670 = 670 Domestic housekeepers and related occupations
699 = 699 Other personal and protective service occupations model
701 = 701 Buyers and purchasing officers (not retail)
710 = 710 Technical and wholesale sales representatives
721 = 721 Retail cash desk and check-out operators
730 = 730 Collectors salespersons and credit agents
731 = 731 Roundsmen/women and van salespersons
732 = 732 Market and street traders and assistants
733 = 733 Scrap dealers, scrap metal merchants
800 = 800 Bakery confectionery process hand foreman
801 = 801 Brewery and vinery process operatives
809 = 809 Other food, drink and tobacco process operatives n.e.c.
810 = 810 Tannery production operatives foreman sueder
814 = 814 Other textiles processing operatives hydro
820 = 820 Chemical, gas and petroleum process plant operatives
821 = 821 Paper wood and related process plant operatives
822 = 822 Cutting and slitting machine operatives (paper products
823 = 823 Glass and ceramics furnace operatives, kilnsetters
824 = 824 Rubber process operatives, moulding machine operatives,
825 = 825 Plastic process operatives, moulders extruders goods
829 = 829 Other chemicals, paper, plastics and related operatives
833 = 833 Annealers, hardeners, temperers (metal)
834 = 834 Electroplaters, galvanisers, colour coaters
839 = 839 Other metal making treating process operatives steel
840 = 840 Machine tool operatives (inc. CNC machine tool operative
841 = 841 Press stamping and automatic machine operatives
851 = 851 Assemblers/lineworkers vehicles metal nutter
860 = 860 Inspectors, viewers testers examiners insulation
861 = 861 Inspectors viewers testers examiners other manufactured
864 = 864 Routine laboratory testers paint soil
869 = 869 Other routine process operatives n.e.c. painter
871 = 871 Road transport depot inspectors and related occupations
880 = 880 Seafarers (merchant navy); barge, lighter and boat opera
881 = 881 Rail transport inspectors, supervisors and guards
883 = 883 Rail signal operatives and crossing keepers
884 = 884 Shunters and point operatives railways
885 = 885 Mechanical plant drivers and operatives (earth moving an
887 = 887 Fork lift and mechanical truck drivers
889 = 889 Other transport machinery operatives horse
890 = 890 Washers, screeners and crushers in mines and quarries
891 = 891 Printing machine minders and assistants
892 = 892 Water sewerage plant attendants sewage foreman
893 = 893 Electrical energy, boiler and related plant operatives a
895 = 895 Mains and service pipe layers, pipe joiners
896 = 896 Construction and related operatives insulator foreman
898 = 898 Mine (excluding coal) and quarry workers
899 = 899 Other plant and machine operatives n.e.c.
901 = 901 Agricultural machinery drivers and operatives
902 = 902 All other occupations in farming and related
912 = 912 Labourers in engineering and allied trades
913 = 913 Mates to metal/electrical and related fitters
919 = 919 Other labourers in making and processing industries n.e.
922 = 922 Rail construction maintenance track lengthmen
923 = 923 Road construction and maintenance workers
929 = 929 Other building and civil engineering labourers n.e.c.
953 = 953 Counterhands, catering assistants help
959 = 959 Other occupations in sales and services n.e.c.
990 = 990 All other labourers and related workers
999 = 999 All others in miscellaneous occupations n.e.c.
1.2 = 1b Managers/proprietors in agriculture and services (16,17)
2.4 = 2d Other professional occupations (24,25,26,27,29)
5.3 = 5c Other skilled trades (55,56,57,58,59)
9.1 = 9a Other occupations in agriculture, forestry & fishing (90)
3.3 = 3c Other associate professional occupations (35,36,37,38,39)
6.1 = 6a Protective service occupations (60,61)
7.1 = 7a Buyers, brokers and sales representatives (70,71)
8.2 = 8b Drivers and mobile machine operatives (87,88)
9.2 = 9b Other elementary occupations (91,92,93,94,95,99)
2.1 = 2a Science and engineering professionals (20,21)
3.1 = 3a Science/engineering associate professionals (30,31,32,33)
5.2 = 5b Skilled engineering trades (51,52,53,54
6.2 = 6b Personal service occupations (62,63,64,65,66,67,69)

Standardised Employment Status
0 = Status unknown (UKEMPST 1 - 7)
1 = Self-employed (all) (not available for UK; =2)
2 = Self-employed (principals) (UKEMPST 1 - 3)
3 = Own account (ICSE-93 3) (UKEMPST 3)
4 = Employer (ICSE-93 2) (UKEMPST 1 & 2)
5 = Family assistant (ICSE-93 5) (not available for UK)
6 = Employee (ICSE-93 1) (UKEMPST 4 - 7)

UK Employment Status
0 = Missing
1 = Self-employed with 25 or more employees
2 = Self-employed with fewer than 25 employees
3 = Self-employed without employees
4 = Manager (large establishment) (4 & 5 not distinguished)
5 = Manager (small establishment) (4 & 5 not distinguished)
6 = Supervisor
7 = Employee

Socio-Economic Group
3 = Professionals: self-employed
4 = Professionals: employees
6 = Junior non-manual
7 = Personal service
8 = Manual foremen, supervisors
9 = Skilled manual
10 = Semi-skilled manual
11 = Unskilled manual
12 = Own account (not professional)
13 = Farmers: employers, managers
14 = Farmers: own account
15 = Agricultural
16 = Armed forces
1.2 = Managers: large establishments
5.1 = Ancillary workers, artists
1.1 = Employers: large establishments
2.2 = Managers: small establishments
2.1 = Employers: small establishments
5.2 = Non-manual foremen, supervisors

Registrar-General's Social Class
1 = I Professional etc
2 = II Managerial and technical
4 = IV Partly skilled
5 = V Unskilled
3.2 = IIIM Skilled manual
3.1 = III N-M Skilled non-manual

CASMIN (Goldthorpe) class
1 = I Higher grade service class
2 = II Lower grade service class
5 = V Technicians, supervisors
6 = VI Skilled manual
4.3 = IVc Farmers etc
4.1 = IVa Small proprietors, with employees
7.1 = VIIa Semi-skilled and unskilled
3.2 = IIIb Personal service
3.1 = IIIa Routine non-manual
4.2 = IVb Small proprietors, no employees
7.2 = VIIb Agricultural

National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification
2 = 2 Lower managerial and professional occupations
3 = 3 Intermediate occupations
4 = 4 Small employers and own account workers
5 = 5 Lower supervisory and technical occupations
6 = 6 Semi-routine occupations
7 = 7 Routine occupations
1.2 = 1.2 Higher professional occupations
1.1 = 1.1 Large employers and higher managerial occupations

National Statistics Operational Categories
1 = L1 Employers in large organisations
2 = L2 Higher managerial occupations
5 = L5 Lower managerial occupations
6 = L6 Higher supervisory occupations
10 = L10 Lower supervisory occupations
12.5 = L12.5 Semi-routine agricultural
13.5 = L13.5 Routine agricultural
3.4 = L3.4 'New' higher professional self-employed
4.3 = L4.3 'Traditional' lower professional and higher technical s
7.3 = L7.3 Intermediate technical and auxiliary
8.1 = L8.1 Employers in small organisations (non-professional)
9.1 = L9.1 Own account workers (non-professional)
11.1 = L11.1 Lower technical craft
12.1 = L12.1 Semi-routine sales
12.6 = L12.6 Semi-routine clerical
13.1 = L13.1 Routine sales and service
3.3 = L3.3 'Traditional' higher professional self-employed
4.1 = L4.1 'Traditional' lower professional and higher technical e
7.1 = L7.1 Intermediate clerical and administrative
8.2 = L8.2 Employers in small organisations (agriculture)
9.2 = L9.2 Own account workers (agriculture)
11.2 = L11.2 Lower technical process operative
12.2 = L12.2 Semi-routine service
12.7 = L12.7 Semi-routine childcare
13.2 = L13.2 Routine production
3.2 = L3.2 'New' higher professional employees
4.4 = L4.4 'New' lower professional and higher technical self-empl
7.4 = L7.4 Intermediate engineering
12.3 = L12.3 Semi-routine technical
13.3 = L13.3 Routine technical
3.1 = L3.1 'Traditional' higher professional employees
4.2 = L4.2 'New' lower professional and higher technical employees
7.2 = L7.2 Intermediate sales and service
12.4 = L12.4 Semi-routine operative
13.4 = L13.4 Routine operative